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Police arrested a suspected drug dealer last week in Aberdeen after receiving a tip-off. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World File)

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Aberdeen police arrest suspected fentanyl dealer

The man was arrested with a large amount of cash and suspected fentanyl

Kimberly Johnson / Surfrider Grays Harbor Local chapter chair Bruce Rittenhouse and state coordinator Liz Schotman, center, converse with an attendee at a launch party for the Surfrider Foundation’s new Grays Harbor chapter at the Oyhut Bay Grill in Ocean Shores on Feb. 27.

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Ocean Shores residents form local Surfrider Foundation chapter

Grays Harbor is the sixth location for group focused on plastics pollution and coastal protections

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Cars exit the Wishkah Street bridge on March 4, near four parcels of property totaling about one acre in an area where the city of Aberdeen formerly planned to build the Grays Harbor Gateway Center, a project abandoned in 2022. The Aberdeen City Council moved to surplus the property in February, but later pulled it from the list to use as a staging area for upcoming construction projects.

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Former Gateway Center property listed for surplus sale, then removed

Public works department to use centrally-located land for construction material in upcoming projects

Rick Moyer / Moyer Multi Media LLC Ruth Hamilton, president of The Friends of the Aberdeen Museum and ardent supporter of the annual Aberdeen Rain Glow Festival, smiles during her cosplay of a penny candy salesperson during the festival in 2023.

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Aberdeen Rain Glow Festival fundraiser shows early success

More than a month after the Aberdeen City Council stopped the funding for Harbor Art Guild, which Aberdeen…

Mary White Gerald Smiley, former Texas Rangers pitcher, high-fives Kyler Parmley at the 2023 Grays Harbor Hawks celebrity basketball game.

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Sports celebs to join Special Olympics athletes on court for fundraiser

Grays Harbor Hawks are hosting 12th annual celebrity basketball game, silent auction

The Daily World file photo The city of Ocean Shores began the process of procuring designs for a sidewalk construction project on Point Brown Avenue, north of the city’s roundabout.

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Sidewalk talk resurfaces in Ocean Shores

After scrapping old project plans, city moves toward procuring new designs

Courtesy of Joe Maclean Pictured here, a ballot box installed in Ocean Shores last year has a similar design to the new, sturdier ballot boxes that will soon be implemented across Grays Harbor County.

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County buys beefed-up ballot boxes

Auditor says he wants more security during contested election year

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World A cyberattack on a billing service company has affected some Harbor Regional Health patients’ ability to pay their bills.

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Some hospital patients may be affected by cyberattack

A billing service provider hit by a cyberattack has had nationwide effects

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World Sheriffs and police chiefs watch during a public hearing on a police pursuit initiative in Olympia on Wednesday.

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Legislature hears testimony on proposed update to pursuit laws

It would ease restrictions on initiating vehicular pursuits in the state

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World Cosmopolis mayor Linda Springer speaks during a budget crisis meeting on Tuesday.

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Cosi discusses solutions as budget woes cause layoff of half of police department

The city’s general fund will plunge into the negative at the end of March

Courtesy photo / HPD A man was stabbed Tuesday evening in Hoquiam.

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One wounded, one arrested in Hoquiam stabbing

The victim and suspect were family members, police say

Pictured in 2023, the largest homeless encampment in Grays Harbor County is near River Street and the Chehalis River bridge in Aberdeen. (The Daily World file photo)

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County commissioners hesitate to release homeless shelter funds

Legal and budget concerns, along with pushback, laced discussions at Tuesday meeting

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz talks on Feb. 23 at the state Route 115 beach approach in Ocean Shores. Franz called on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to continue funding the state’s tsunami mitigation research.

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Federal budget could cut Washington’s tsunami research funding

State has produced slew of evacuation maps, models with money from national mitigation program